Le Comte Ory Opéra en deux actes ... avec Accompagnement de Piano Prix Net: 12 Francs ... Répertoire des Opéras Français. [Piano-vocal score]
- Paris: E. Troupenas et Cie. [PN E.T. & Cie. 1980], 1845
Paris: E. Troupenas et Cie. [PN E.T. & Cie. 1980], 1845. Quarto. Quarter dark red calf with marbled boards, spine in gilt-ruled compartments, titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto cast list and contents, verso blank), 258 pp. Engraved.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; hinges partially split. Minor wear, some foxing, and soiling. Gossett p. 507, 5.
Le Comte Ory, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson after their own play, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 20 August 1828.
"Though sometimes designated an opéra comique, Le comte Ory is a uniquely Rossinian creation with skilfully structured ensembles and a sophistication in the orchestral and vocal writing that transcends anything to be found in the works of such composers as Auber or Hérold. It is a wry and witty piece that appropriates and develops the gentle guying of the romantic sensibility of Il viaggio a Reims while developing in the famous Act 2 trio, newly written, a degree of vocal and instrumental sensibility and sophistication that even Berlioz was bound to marvel at. The critic Henry Chorley noted that ‘there is not a bad melody, there is not an ugly bar in Le comte Ory’, adding that there is in the piece ‘a felicitous curiousness in the modulations … a crispness of finish, a resolution to make effects by disappointing the ear, which not only bespeaks the master’s familiarity with the greatest classical writers, but also a wondrous tact in conforming to the taste of the new public whom he was to fascinate’." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; hinges partially split. Minor wear, some foxing, and soiling. Gossett p. 507, 5.
Le Comte Ory, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson after their own play, was first performed in Paris at the Opéra on 20 August 1828.
"Though sometimes designated an opéra comique, Le comte Ory is a uniquely Rossinian creation with skilfully structured ensembles and a sophistication in the orchestral and vocal writing that transcends anything to be found in the works of such composers as Auber or Hérold. It is a wry and witty piece that appropriates and develops the gentle guying of the romantic sensibility of Il viaggio a Reims while developing in the famous Act 2 trio, newly written, a degree of vocal and instrumental sensibility and sophistication that even Berlioz was bound to marvel at. The critic Henry Chorley noted that ‘there is not a bad melody, there is not an ugly bar in Le comte Ory’, adding that there is in the piece ‘a felicitous curiousness in the modulations … a crispness of finish, a resolution to make effects by disappointing the ear, which not only bespeaks the master’s familiarity with the greatest classical writers, but also a wondrous tact in conforming to the taste of the new public whom he was to fascinate’." Richard Osborne in Grove Music Online.